LGBT in the Persian Gulf: Hiding is crucial
Arbitrary detention of LGBT people, laws against same-sex intimacy, social prejudice and hate speech in the media are…
Executions for gay sex: 13 nations threaten it, 4 do it.
How many countries execute people for being gay? This blog’s best estimate: The laws of 13 nations call…
We’re down to 74 countries where homosexuality is illegal
[See January 2019 update: “Tally of nations with anti-gay laws drops to 73.”]
Support for Iraqi rejection of anti-LGBT attacks
Human Rights Watch has endorsed Iraqi Shiite clergyman Muqtada al-Sadr’s call for an end to violence against sexual…
Let’s celebrate: List of anti-LGBT nations shrinks again
76 countries with anti-homosexuality laws (or 72 or 78) This week’s decision by the Belize Supreme Court to…
Bangladesh police say they know activists’ 5 killers
Police in Bangladesh have identified five people involved in the April 25 murder of LGBT rights activists Xulhaz…
Death penalty for gay sex in 10 to 14 nations (update)
By Colin Stewart Ten nations with large Muslim populations have laws providing for the death penalty for same-sex…
92 nations formerly had anti-LGBT laws; now it’s 75 (or 79)
The number of countries with laws against same-sex sexual activity has dropped from 92 a decade ago to…
Two LGBT activists murdered in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, two LGBT rights activists, including the editor of Roopbaan, the country’s first LGBT magazine, were hacked…
Activists urge U.S. to accept 500 LGBT Syrian refugees
The U.S.-based LGBTI asylum and refugee organization ORAM is pleading for the United States to reserve spaces for…